Oksana Lut
Minister of Agriculture
Background
Oksana Nikolaevna Lut is a Russian economist and politician who has served as Minister of Agriculture since May 2024. In that role, she heads the federal ministry responsible for agriculture policy, food production, and state support measures for the sector. She is a senior figure in the Russian government because the agriculture portfolio is central to domestic food supply, rural development, and the management of production and subsidy programs.
Before becoming minister, Lut served as First Deputy Minister of Agriculture from 2021 to 2024. She had previously been Deputy Minister of Agriculture from 2018 to 2021, giving her a long administrative career inside the same federal ministry. Her progression through these posts placed her among the ministry’s top officials before her appointment to lead it.
Lut has been associated with the implementation and coordination of agricultural support policies, including measures aimed at improving access to farm equipment and other production inputs. In March 2026, she participated in a government meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev on supplying farmers with agricultural machinery. The meeting addressed subsidized leasing and lending programs and plans for the development of machinery production and regional networks, areas that reflect the state’s broader role in supporting domestic agriculture.
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Dmitry Patrushev: The Russian Government Is Maintaining Support Measures to Improve the Affordability of Domestic Agricultural Machinery
Deputy PM Patrushev chaired a meeting on farm equipment access, reaffirming subsidized leasing and lending programs, ordering plans for autopiloted machinery production, and tasking a new working group with developing Russia's agricultural machinery sector.